Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia,...

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues , but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort, you will get neither comfort nor truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.

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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

—William Inge

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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

—William Hazlitt

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.

—Michael Josephson

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

—Louis D. Brandeis

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

—Jimmy Carter

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